Longevity starts with eating monsters

Chapter 16 The Truth of Xiayuan County (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

Lu Chen followed his memory and quickly found the place where the crowd gathered in the south of the city. As soon as he arrived, dozens or even hundreds of eyes were looking at him.

What kind of look is that?
There is no despair, no sadness, and even no resentment towards the injustice of the world. There is only numbness and dullness, as if one has long been accustomed to it.

At this moment, Lu Chen felt that the people standing in front of him were not human beings at all, but a group of walking corpses whose souls had been stripped away.

".Chaye?"

Only after seeing Lu Chen's face clearly did voices gradually rise in the crowd. Apparently some people still remembered the officer who had led them to clean up the neighborhood yesterday and taught them hand-in-hand.

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Lu Chen frowned, walked up, and finally saw the scene.

In the middle of the crowd was an open space, and in the open space lay a group of dying people, barely breathing, seemingly not having more days to live.

Among them was the man who was a disaster victim yesterday.

"what happened?"

Lu Chen's expression was slightly gloomy. Although the man's vitality was drained by the Mirage Martial Arts School, leaving him with a chronic illness, he had seen it with his own eyes yesterday and it was definitely not fatal.

However, after just one night, the man's energy and spirit, which had just recovered, was drained of 99%. He was only hanging on to his last breath. His eyes, which were full of hope yesterday, had turned into holes, with a tendency to become blurred, as if he would die in the next second.

"You guys went out tonight?"

Lu Chen thought about it again and again, and could only think of this possibility. One of the three major taboos in the city is not to wander at night. Could it be that the man encountered a demon when he went out at night?

"How can it be."

The man's wife, a woman who had also met Lu Chen, held the sleeping child in her arms and said woodenly, "We also know the taboos in the city. Perhaps this is fate."

"The boss's deadline is approaching. Even if you escape once, you can't escape forever."

"The deadline is approaching?" Lu Chen frowned even deeper: "Who told you that?"

"Of course it was the masters in the City God Temple." The woman raised her head, her expression indifferent, only her red and swollen eyes expressed her deep sorrow: "They said that the master's life span is coming to an end, so the ghosts and gods from the underworld came to take the master away last night. Life and death are determined by fate and you can't blame others."

"And the same goes for everyone else."

"other people?"

Lu Chen looked around and realized that the dying people lying on the open ground were all the victims he brought back from the Mirage Martial Arts School!
Death is approaching? This is a warning!
The fact that Wang Shenlou could devour the victims in the city must have something to do with the demons in the City God Temple. Killing him would mean offending those demons.

After a moment of silence, Lu Chen took out the remaining demon meat from his arms: "Although their spirits are almost scattered, there are ways to remedy them. As long as they still have their last breath, if they eat more nourishing food, there may be hope of recovery. Cook this and feed it to them."

"It's no use, sir."

The woman shook her head: "This will only add to the pain of the head of the family. Anyway, according to the custom of the city, the master of the underworld will come tonight."

Lu Chen paused and asked, "Will you come again?"

"Yes." The woman nodded: "The masters of the City God Temple said that the masters of the underworld will come to take away the soul on the first day, and take away the body on the second day. If you die with both body and soul intact, you can enjoy happiness in the underworld."

Having said this, the woman's originally numb eyes actually revealed a hint of hope.

Seeing this, Lu Chen became even more silent.

It seems that these demons are not satisfied with eating the essence, energy and spirit, and they also don't let go of the flesh and blood, and eat them over two days. How long has this custom lasted in the city?
At the same time, the woman slowly stood up and said, "Sir, if it's all right, I still need to burn some money for the master."

"French money?"

"It was given by the masters of the City God Temple. As long as I can burn more money for the masters in the underworld, they will take care of the master in the underworld."

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Lu Chen concentrated his fist and opened his Dharma Eyes, clearly seeing invisible threads spreading out from the Dharma Coin in the woman's hand. They were exactly the same as the ones he had seen in the Mirage Martial Arts School, both of which were used to extract essence, energy and spirit.

When the magic money was lit, what was burned was not the paper, but the woman's life.

".There are quite a lot of variations."

Looking at the woman staggering away, Lu Chen's eyes were dark.

However, at this moment, a voice suddenly came: "Are you back?"

Lu Chen turned around and looked at Yun Wanrong from Fengyun Martial Arts School walking towards him: "You are also familiar with the things happening in this city, right?"

Yun Wanrong was different from the disaster victims. She was a disciple of Fengyun Sword House and had a wide range of knowledge. It was impossible for her to believe in the so-called underworld in the City God Temple. "Of course I know."

Yun Wanrong nodded, and seeing Lu Chen frowning, she shook her head and sighed, "Just bear with it. I can't do anything, and neither can you."

"Let's go back to the martial arts gym first, and I'll tell you slowly."

After saying this, Yun Wanrong turned and left, and Lu Chen followed behind.

"It seems that Song Kui didn't tell you anything, or he didn't have the time to tell you. In fact, it's not easy to achieve this step."

"If the demons in the city hadn't been restrained because of the reputation of the Prison Warden and the background of Fengyun Sword Pavilion, I'm afraid the situation in Xiayuan County would be even worse right now."

"Don't you think it's bad enough?" Lu Chen asked back.

"Yeah, it's not bad enough."

Yun Wanrong did not look back: "At least the demons in the City God Temple are only arrogant in the south and outside of the city, when facing the disaster victims."

"In the city, as long as you follow the taboos, nothing will happen."

Yun Wanrong's words made Lu Chen suddenly realize.

“Locals and Outsiders”

When he entered the city, he felt something was wrong. The residents of the entire county seemed to have completely different attitudes towards locals and outsiders.

Now it seems that the answer is obvious.

"You use the victims to feed the demons, and in return the demons won't attack the people in the city?"

"not only that."

Yun Wanrong's voice was also a little dry: "There is another more important point. Don't forget, there is a severe drought this year. Do you think there is really any food in the city?"

"Where do you think the food in the city comes from?"

".Immortal meat!?"

Recalling the scene he saw in the city, Lu Chen reacted quickly: "The meat was provided by the demons? To replace the lack of food?"

"Yes."

Yun Wanrong nodded: "The immortal meat is made by the demons in the City God Temple using their magical powers. If we kill them, the immortal meat will be gone."

At this point, Yun Wanrong finally turned around and looked at Lu Chen: "Let's not talk about the powerful monsters. Song Kui and I are no match for them. Even if we can drive them away or even kill them, what will happen after we deal with them? There are thousands of people in this city. How are you going to feed them?"

"So you're just going to do nothing?"

"Of course not! We tried too."

Yun Wanrong had a complicated expression: "Lin's company's grain transport team. As long as the grain arrives, we will have the confidence to drive those monsters out of the county."

"Even if the prison department can't spare any manpower, I can send a message to the sect and call an elder over."

"But."

Yun Wanrong didn't say anything else, but Lu Chen knew the reason: the grain transport team of Lin's Company was attacked by tigers on the road, and all the grain disappeared.

This is the truth about Xiayuan City.

How can there really be a paradise in a place like this, amidst a great disaster, in troubled times, and surrounded by demons?
"Now you know the truth, but what does it matter?"

Yun Wanrong said bitterly: "I still can't do anything. It's better not to know."

Lu Chen fell silent after hearing this.

Yun Wanrong was right.

He was not a high-ranking official in the imperial court, and he did not have a huge fortune. He did not know how to get food, nor how to solve the current predicament of Xiayuan County.

He only knows one thing.

Lu Chen said nothing and held the hilt of the knife.

"Eating meat can still fill you up even without food."

(End of this chapter)